"On January 28\, 1742\, a ramshackle vesse l of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on \;the \;coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men\, barely alive\, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship&nbs p\;the \;Wager\, \;a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While \;the&nbs p\;Wager \;had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as \;"the \;prize of all \;the \;oceans\," it had wrecked on a desolate island off \;the \;coast of Patagonia. \;The \ ;men\, after being marooned for months and facing starvation\, built \ ;the \;flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days\, traversi ng nearly 3\,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later\, another\, even more decrepit craft landed on \;the \;coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castawa ys\, and they told a very different story. \;The \;thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes -- they were mutineers. \;The&nbs p\;first group responded with counter charges of their own\, of a tyrannic al and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that whi le stranded on \;the \;island \;the \;crew had fallen into anarchy\, with warring factions fighting for dominion over \;the \;barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew\, \;t he \;Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling&n bsp\;the \;truth. \;The \;stakes were life-and-death--for whom ever \;the \;court found guilty could hang."
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